I had farfalle (butterfly) pasta with vodka sauce. It has Italian sausage and peas in it. I thought it was
bow-tie pasta but farfalle translates as
butterfly. I can see that. In real life, bow-ties should have straight ends. There are still around 2,000 kinds of pasta I don't know the names of, or what the names mean in English. Some are fun and interesting to find out, especially if you try something new.
Orecchiette means small ear, amd it took me several tries to get the spelling right, or
close enough to right for my browser to guess what I meant!
Different shapes of pasta are sometimes meant to hold different types of sauces, different ways. Certain types of sauce may stick to rotini a lot more than to penne for example. Time to eat more butterflies with vodka sauce. And it really does have vodka in it. It's not just a name.